Alleged internal rifts and dubious leaks plague Fox News, mirroring the unsettling reality of a culture propagated by liberal narratives and bureaucratic deceit.
The ongoing turmoil at Fox News, a stalwart of cable news ratings for years, reveals the destructive aftermath of the network’s decision to remove Tucker Carlson, its leading on-air talent. The crisis at Fox only worsens with recent layoffs, allegedly a direct consequence of a hefty defamation lawsuit settlement involving Dominion Voting Systems.
As Rolling Stone magazine reports, Fox News carried out a sweeping dismissal of its investigative unit on Friday. This ominous move closely follows the network’s staggering $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems last month. In an era where media accountability should be paramount, Fox seems to be axing its rank and file journalists, while the top brass, responsible for the Dominion debacle, remains unscathed.
Additional sources confirm the mass layoffs, and former staffers suggest this is a desperate cost-saving attempt ahead of the fiscal year-end in June. They allege that these measures stem from the financial strain imposed by the Dominion lawsuit, which raises the question: Is the network sacrificing its workforce to mitigate past mistakes?
However, a report from the New York Daily News offers a different perspective, suggesting that the investigative unit wasn’t eradicated but merely restructured. This supposedly affected three out of seven members, who were offered alternative roles within the organization. But, does this reshuffling, at a time of declining ratings and legal woes, signal a broader strategy to divert public attention?
Adding to Fox’s impending tribulations is a separate $2.5 billion defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic, another voting software company. The suit is slated for a courtroom hearing in 2025, unless Fox opts for another costly out-of-court settlement.
Ratings for Fox News have nosedived since the network inexplicably removed Tucker Carlson from its programming. Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has been outspoken in her criticism of the network’s missteps. She taunts Fox’s plummeting viewership, coining a new moniker “Foxweiser,” likening the network’s decline to Bud Light’s dwindling sales after a contentious collaboration with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Kelly further emphasized the severity of Fox’s ratings crisis on her SiriusXM podcast, asserting that the network has retained only about a third of their audience. Fox’s primetime programming, its major revenue source, has been decimated, with shows like Hannity seeing drastic declines. If this trend persists, Fox News might find its once robust dominance in cable news relegated to the annals of history.
As the network continues to reel from Carlson’s abrupt departure, “Fox News Tonight” — the program filling Carlson’s time slot — saw its viewership drop by almost a million. This startling loss has left a void in the channel’s cable news standing, a reality that Kelly described as a “bloodbath.” The question is, can Fox News navigate its way out of this tumultuous period, or has the network permanently compromised its position at the helm of cable news?
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My audience is calling them #Foxweiser. https://t.co/39K4AwE7JY
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 5, 2023
Sources: ConservativeBrief, Rolling Stone, New York Daily News, Slay News
